Meanings
comparative more besung · superlative most besung
- Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow?
1897, The Virginia Spectator, University of Virginia1 more example
Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath.
1868, William Morris, “June: The Love of Alcestis”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, parts [I and II], London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 490
- participlepastpast participle of besing
Origin
From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.
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